Psychological Quotes - Page 13

• Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Clear Head, Squash

  "Prosectors demand jail for Becker". www.cnn.com. October 23, 2002.

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• Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

  Dirk Benedict

  Children, Home, Emotional

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• The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mean, Design, Insanity

  Maxims

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• The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Inspirational, Cutting, Hands

  Ascent of Man (1973) ch. 3

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• I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

  Sophia Bush

  Boards, Horror, Thrillers

  Interview with Matt Wiggins, www.ign.com. March 26, 2006.

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• I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

  Octavia Butler

  Emotional, People, Work Out

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• Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

  Robert Byrd

  Law, Sides, Abandoned

  Sen. Robert C. Byrd (2008). “Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader”, p.84, Macmillan

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• Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.

  Graydon Carter

  Long, Water, Brain

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• British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

  Lee Child

  Stories, Crime, Geography

  "Sacked at 40 and on the scrapheap. Now Brummie tops US book charts" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2008.

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• The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

  Noam Chomsky

  Nature, Powerful, Principles

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• We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

  Alice Cooper

  Healthy, Tomatoes, Reactions

  Interview with Mike Quigley for Poppin (Canada's rock culture magazine published in Vancouver), www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

  Robertson Davies

  Spiritual, Reading, Book

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

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• I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

  James Dean

  Kids, Thinking, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Thinking, Political, Connections

  "Alan Dershowitz on Being Wrong, Part I: Lawyers, Pundits, Error, and Evil". Interview with Kathryn Schulz, www.slate.com. May 12, 2010.

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• The Israeli military plays more than a critical role in defending the citizens of the Jewish state. It also plays an important social, scientific and psychological role in preparing its young citizens for the challenging task of being Israelis in a difficult world.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Military, Play, Challenges

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• Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

  Marguerite Duras

  Destiny, Men, Funny Sarcastic

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.17, Grove Press

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• Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Special, Elements, Horror

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia.

  Dave Eggers

  Kids, Different, Needs

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• I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'

  Vera Farmiga

  Baby, Rosemary, Film

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• I think "destiny" is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

  Jodie Foster

  Fate, Destiny, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell. I think there are all kinds of different hells. It's not a place you go to after you die.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, People, Bipolar

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• Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Spiritual, Work

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• Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Educational, Philosophy

  Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.268, Basic Books

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• Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

  Sigmund Freud

  Crazy, Average, Mad

  "Analysis Terminable and Interminable". Book by Sigmund Freud, sect. 5, 1937.

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• Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

  Sigmund Freud

  Talking, Complaining, Lioness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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